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Californiaâs 2021â2022 State Budget: Focus on Health Care
California Government Update August 03, 2021
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California’s New Budget Commits the State to Record Health Care Spending
California Governor Gavin Newsom and the state Legislature enacted a $196 billion spending plan for FY2021–22, including authorizing a 29% increase in health care spending over FY2020–21. This new level of spending is in part a response to the COVID-19 pandemic, but much of it will go to pay for Medi-Cal expansion, innovation and reform that was under consideration before the pandemic.
Historic Revenues Allow Record Spending
Lawmakers are able to commit to record spending on health care because of an unprecedented $85 billion budget surplus, which includes higher-than-expected tax revenues and $26 billion in nonrecurring federal COVID-19 relief funding.
DHCS releases 2021 timeline for CalAIM initiative Emily Boerger | Feb 2, 2021
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The California Department of Health Care Services (DHCS) offered stakeholders a timeline of 2021 “implementation milestones” to support the CalAIM initiative during a relaunching webinar last week.
The agency released an updated CalAIM proposal last month, introducing key changes following stakeholder feedback and adjustments due to the COVID-19 pandemic. DHCS’s release of the updated initiative is the latest step in the department’s effort to implement broad program, delivery system, and payment reform for the Medi-Cal program.
During the first few months of 2021, DHCS will release a handful of draft documents related to the Enhanced Care Management (ECM) and In Lieu of Services (ILOS) components of CalAIM. As part of Medi-Cal reform, DHCS is proposing an enhanced care management benefit that builds off of the current Health Homes Program and Whole Person Care Pi